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What's a global software product?

by kzrdude 6y ago

cpach 6y ago
Stuff like Gmail, Basecamp, Datadog, etc?
- speedgoose 6y ago
  Are these products a thing in Asia?
- ebalit 6y ago
  Datadog founders are french and they have a big R&D presence in Paris. Europe brain drain is a known problem for its tech sector but still underestimated in my opinion.
patagurbon 6y ago
Creative Cloud, 95% of social media, Google/Bing, Office, Autodesk stuff, Windows. The biggest European global(ly consumed) software is probably Spotify right?
- kabes 6y ago
  Probably SAP
  - makapuf 6y ago
    Linux?
- dmitriid 6y ago
  Someone already mentioned SAP. Also Booking.com. But also ARM (though it's hardware, not software). Europe also produces 20% of world's research in the field [1] The big question though is: do we measure success correctly? The vast majority of "great American companies" are either vaporware with inflated valuations, or produce zero innovations [2] [1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/european-rd-review-finds-lagging-high-tech-performance-despite-major-science-investment https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/european-rd-review-f... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24460504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24460504
  - barry-cotter 6y ago
    Booking is a wholly owned subsidiary of Priceline and has been for most of its existence since they bought it after it went bankrupt.
alexchamberlain 6y ago
Facebook, Google, Netflix, Amazon, eBay, WhatsApp, WeChat...
pb7 6y ago
Any software product that has significant market share internationally.
- abc-xyz 6y ago
  Then why would you put China alongside USA? It’s not like their software has been an international success. China pretty much only have TikTok, while EU have Spotify. You might be tempted to include WeChat and games that Tencent brought, but if we lower the bar to that then the list of EU companies would grow a lot as well, such as SoundCloud, Shazam, last.fm, Viber, King, Mojang, Rovio, Supercell, Kiloo, Dailymotion, Criteo, SAP, ASOS, Skyscanner, Wix, GoCardless, Adyen, Kaspersky Labs, Yandex, Transferwise, Badoo, etc.

What's a global software product?

cpach 6y ago

Stuff like Gmail, Basecamp, Datadog, etc?

speedgoose 6y ago
Are these products a thing in Asia?
ebalit 6y ago
Datadog founders are french and they have a big R&D presence in Paris. Europe brain drain is a known problem for its tech sector but still underestimated in my opinion.

patagurbon 6y ago

Creative Cloud, 95% of social media, Google/Bing, Office, Autodesk stuff, Windows. The biggest European global(ly consumed) software is probably Spotify right?

kabes 6y ago
Probably SAP
- makapuf 6y ago
  Linux?
dmitriid 6y ago
Someone already mentioned SAP. Also Booking.com. But also ARM (though it's hardware, not software). Europe also produces 20% of world's research in the field [1] The big question though is: do we measure success correctly? The vast majority of "great American companies" are either vaporware with inflated valuations, or produce zero innovations [2] [1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/european-rd-review-finds-lagging-high-tech-performance-despite-major-science-investment https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/european-rd-review-f... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24460504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24460504
- barry-cotter 6y ago
  Booking is a wholly owned subsidiary of Priceline and has been for most of its existence since they bought it after it went bankrupt.

alexchamberlain 6y ago

Facebook, Google, Netflix, Amazon, eBay, WhatsApp, WeChat...

pb7 6y ago

Any software product that has significant market share internationally.

abc-xyz 6y ago
Then why would you put China alongside USA? It’s not like their software has been an international success. China pretty much only have TikTok, while EU have Spotify. You might be tempted to include WeChat and games that Tencent brought, but if we lower the bar to that then the list of EU companies would grow a lot as well, such as SoundCloud, Shazam, last.fm, Viber, King, Mojang, Rovio, Supercell, Kiloo, Dailymotion, Criteo, SAP, ASOS, Skyscanner, Wix, GoCardless, Adyen, Kaspersky Labs, Yandex, Transferwise, Badoo, etc.